The samnite alreay fought against the greeks who used the phalanx as well. The italics put the greeks in the south on great troubles, the romans had to adapt to their combat style as well
@@TzarTzarevich777 Not true, really, try reading Livy (1 52), about maniples during the reign of Tarquin Superbus. As to Dovahatty, never heard of him, but he probably has never read Livy.
It's so cool that Italia had so many advanced and worthy tribes/civilizations, though the Latins would ultimately rise to dominate. No wonder they were so hardened and unstoppable by the time they made their way out of Italia alone! They had to conquer some very worthy opponents.
Rasna also had cities in the Campania (not the today's known region which ishalf Campania half Samnium) such as Capua for example. They had some kind of a second dodecapoli in southern Italy before the were driven out /absorbed by oscans/samnites/lucanians
@@AncientHistoryGuy Huh, Same. I just got Attila recently. Gonna finish off the last of Rome 2's faction achievements. Seriously, get the OG Rome: Total War Music Mod. It makes battles ALL the more satisfying and epic.
I have you know that linen was cultivated in the region until early 20th century. Many had looms at home prior the second world world war. Only recently in modern times many with industrialization most of the old crafts have been abandoned. Each town specialized according to its location and presence in its territory of easily available materials be it agricultural or grazing the land to a particular crafts, terra cotta vases, leather, wood works, and metal. A variety of textile materials wear in use, wool, flax, hemp, burlap for agricultural produce and prior to unification even silk. In the Samnite period linen was more than possible. Obviously the elites not every one. One have to see Pietrabbondante with its temple theater and the recently discovered Domus Publica, residence of the Samnite high priest, and in Monte Vairano a cyclops walled city with paved street side walks and homes burned at the time of Sulla. Many archeological findings are from distant places of the Mediterranean basin. See Videos on you tube on Pietrabondante Archeologist La Regina and De Benedictis archeologist on Monte Vairano.
Imagine being the guy who sees a large pile of corpses on the mustering field your first day on the job, and when your boss asks if you're going to be loyal you say "nah fam". I wonder how much of that story is Roman propaganda since we know the Romans were master propagandists.
Why would you go up to the guy with the knife, KNOWING the consequences, and still say no? There's no way you don't know what's gonna happen! You just saw the guy in front of you get stabbed!
Being a Samnite reenactor myself this makes me a little happier than i am usually :). Even though it is obviously a simplified version. Livy writes MANY years after the Samnite wars and un the midst of other struggles between Romans and italics (with the samnites in the front row) so his story is a little bit affected by this. Anyway samnites never gave up: 3 Samnite wars, Pyrrhus, Annibal, Social war, civil war and even Spartacus, samnites always fought (not entirely) for different reasons. I suggest a book of my old professor Gianni Brizzi "Ribelli contro Roma" Rebels against Rome. Very interesting take.
Nice one, very interesting I loce the part you put on glasses to read th quotes 8:52 btw its not scoot ium, scu tum, look at the mediation, hes pronounceation is perfect
Thankyou! And its accurate! Im light sensitive so the white pages hurt my eyes. BRING BACK YELLOW PAPER BOOKS! lol Yup, that it is, Alex my voice over guy has lots of chances to practice his Latin in the upcoming videos!
Assuming people basically stayed in one place until modernity, I am a Samnite as my people came from this part of Italy. I am glad that we stand among the many tribes and peoples of the world who eventually found civilization and escaped barbarity.
I swear every time I hear "linothrax" I'm close to getting an aneurism. This isn't a particularly difficult word to get right, and you said it a hundred times and didn't bother once reading it right. We still speak of the thorax in the medical profession. It's the chest. Finally, just because the "th" sound exists in English, doesn’t mean it exists in every language. The "th" is pronounced as a hard "t". Now let's try again: Linothorax.
A book on them came out last year. I got it at time,just haven't got round to reading it. Published by pen and sword books. Think I'll start reading it today.
So not entirely . A lot of the coastlines especially in West were a mixture of Greek and carthaginian colonies. Often it was these cities which the syracusans and the carthaginians were trying to sway over to their side. We could be even more detail and note how the North and south of the island was divided by different dialects of Greek which would be why the athenians would get involved in the first place on the island. The Greeks had colonies everywhere along north Africa as well many of which relied on cartage for naval protection against pirates rather than their mother city as it was closer.
Rome got a lot of their early cohort ideas from the Samnites, specifically the looser formation of infantry. The Samnites in turn sort of just adapted Greek military ideas for the Italian landscape/warfare which was far ore mobile in greece.
What a way to make me stop listening. There is an established form of dating but yeah not here, sad as it was good until they started with the "inclusive" dating method, immediately to my mind it then becomes not solid history and sometimes else. If you're going to use an alternative dating system make it your own piggybacking on the established is just weak.
